DeLong Smackdown Watch: Paul Krugman Outs Me

Sigh. I had carefully, carefully trimmed that quotation. Now Paul Krugman has to go look at the original:

A Quotation Ruined By Context: Via Brad DeLong, I learned of this great line by J.S. Mill:

What was affirmed by Cicero of all things with which philosophy is conversant, may be asserted without scruple of the subject of currency – that there is no opinion so absurd as not to have been maintained by some person of reputation. There even appears to be on this subject a...